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- Jan 21, 2022
now I want to play that shit for myself. I enjoyed Heavy Rain for what it is and it had its moments of decent writing, never something amazing but it was at least an enjoyable romp aside from the controls because Sony wanted the suxaxis and later the playstation move gimmick in as many games as possible.David Cage is a Neil Breen-tier lolcow in his own right, and Beyond: Two Souls was funny because, at the time, people worldwide were congratulating Page for her portrayal of Ellie in the critically acclaimed first The Last of Us game (which Page had nothing to do with; and which has resulted in every subsequent remake and adaptation going out of its way to make Ellie look further and further differentiated from Ellen). Ellen would always reply "I am not in The Last of Us - I play Jodie in Beyond: Two Souls." And anyone familiar with Cage's previous games (Omikron: The Nomad Soul and Indigo Prophecy) already knew it was going to be be a nonsensical turd.
Ellen resorting to this is funnier than people know. The plot is actually centered around Willem Dafoe torturing his ghost family because he won't kill himself to be with them (Spoiler: he does; and immediately goes "This is great - Why didn't I do this in the first place?"), with Ellen's role being largely independent of that plot; and instead pointlessly depicting her as constantly using her conjoined ghost twin who died in the womb to wait to fight off rapists until after they have beaten her into submission, but before they can achieve penetration (the player controls the ghost). The game also consists of scenes played out of chronological order; so you have no idea what's going on aside from Ellen Page constantly finding herself victimized by men and saved by a ghost.
Omikron is fucking INSANE and if played with friends while drinking and riffing on it, it's an enjoyable time of self-torture via the medium of video games.
David Cage is the more autistic, french version of Hideo Kojima, except Kojima actually has a strong vision however nonsense that might be.